Denton Loving lives on a farm near the historic Cumberland Gap, where Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together.
He is the author of three poetry collections: Feller (Mercer University Press), Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag), and Tamp, (Mercer University Press), which was a finalist for the Weatherford Award and recipient of the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. He is also the editor of Seeking Its Own Level: an anthology of writings about water (MotesBooks).
For over a decade, he co-directed the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University where he also co-edited drafthorse: the literary journal of work and no work. He has received scholarships and fellowships from organizations such as the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, the Eckerd College Writers Conference, and the Key West Literary Seminars. He earned the Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Literature from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. He is a co-founder and an editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf.
His fiction, poetry, essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in numerous publications including River Styx, CutBank, Iron Horse Literary Review and Ecotone.
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